Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
LMAO what a pussy...I swear you pussy niggas that blame the refs are getting worse by the day. So the refs were cheating for the Heat when they sent Rose to the line to tie the game and he missed right?? So the refs were cheating when Rose turned it over and Bron drained a three, or when Rose hit Wade's hand and elbow on that 3 right?? Fuck outta here pussy.7 DAY THEORY CDATISR;2669872 said:if u heat fans really think yall won without the refs yall silly as hell. chicago dominated all 5 games until the refs called those bs calls. and dallas finna smash
7 DAY THEORY CDATISR;2669872 said:if u heat fans really think yall won without the refs yall silly as hell. chicago dominated all 5 games until the refs called those bs calls. and dallas finna smash
b*braze;2669885 said:oh that was the refs who hit them thees??? shit i thought it was lebron...
7 DAY THEORY CDATISR;2669584 said:shout out to the refs cheating for the heat.. AND THIBS DUMB ASS LEAVING NOAH AND BOOZER OUT THE WHOLE DAM FOURTH QUARTER!!1 smh
Coo Coo Cal's Beanie;2667648 said:we got the 1st pick of the 2nd round. according to this mock draft they're lookin at josh selby. Id rather have nolan smith, who's predicted to go 3rd in the 2nd rnd
http://www.draftexpress.com/nba-mock-draft/2011/
south4life;2667006 said:DeAndre Jordan would be a perfect fit.
Starting Line Up would be.....
C - DeAndre Jordan
PF - Chris Bosh
SF - LeBron James
SG - Dwayne Wade
PG - Mike Bibby
The second unit would be.....
C - Joel Anthony
PF - Udonis Haslem
SF - Mike Miller
SG - James Jones
PG - Mario Chalmers
That would leave Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Juwan Howard, Eric Dampier, Eddie House, Jamaal Magloire and Dexter Pittman as the rest of the bench.
But who will be The one that is gone to make room for DeAndre Jordan?
Tommy bilfiger;2673503 said:Congrats to the heat a lot of haters(including me) got silenced
7 DAY THEORY CDATISR;2669872 said:if u heat fans really think yall won without the refs yall silly as hell. chicago dominated all 5 games until the refs called those bs calls. and dallas finna smash
goat334;2673588 said:Save your energy bruh, Refs been fucking up since James A. Naismith invented this sport. The refs really dropped the ball in last year finals, but that didn't nullify the Lakers Championship. So stop wasting your time trying to justify that the refs won the game for the Heat, and place the blame on what the Bulls could have controlled.
MR.CJ;2673638 said:if that dude is a bulls fan, he must have didn't watch jordan in the 90's.
goat334;2673721 said:LOL.....Jordan was literally untouchable.
Nolan Smith is a good defender. Great all around player. Only knock on his game is they said he's an undersized SG and he's not "explosive" enough to be a PG. But on this team he wont be looked at to carry us. He's a better all around player than Chalmers and doesnt turn the ball over.bless the child;2672411 said:Does Nolan Smith play D? At 6'4 he would give Miami a big lineup out there on the perimeter.
Heat notebook
Miami Heat’s Dwyane Wade gets defensive first
CHICAGO -- Dwyane Wade’s commitment to defense in Games 3 and 4 of the Eastern Conference finals subtracted from his offense. The Heat’s star guard said Thursday morning that he’s fine with reduced offensive production if it results in wins.
Wade acknowledged before Game 5 that the energy he has expended on the defensive end has taken something from his offense. He was held scoreless in the second half of Game 4 and entered overtime period with just eight points. In Game 3, Wade had 17 points on 6-of-17 shooting.
“When you play so hard on the defensive end, sometimes you get on the offensive end and you’re not saving yourself,” Wade said. “You’re trying to go all out.”
To a man, the Heat credited its turnaround in the Eastern Conference finals to a strong commitment to defense. Much of that credit goes to Wade, who helped limit Bulls guard and MVP Derrick Rose in Games 2, 3 and 4. Wade’s block against Rose in the final minute of overtime during Game 4 sealed the Heat’s win and its 3-1 series advantage.
“It’s defense first, and when I don’t do things on the defensive end, coach will say something to me first about that end,” Wade said. “He never really says anything to me about the offensive end. It’s mostly on the defensive end, so it’s a different challenge, and I enjoy it.”
Wade said his commitment to defense has grown throughout his career. On Thursday, he said he took plays off defensively when he was younger and paired with veteran defenders.
“When I was younger, I had the luxury of saving myself a lot,” Wade said. “I had Gary Payton; I had Shannon Anderson; I had James Posey — I had those guys who came in the game and told me just to go chill out and guard someone who wasn’t an offensive threat. So, I had the opportunity to just focus on that end of the floor.”
Wade said defense was the focus this summer when the Heat’s roster was assembled and now that vision is being realized in the postseason. On Thursday, he ran off the individual defensive attributes of himself, James, Chris Bosh, Udonis Haslem, Mike Miller and Mario Chalmers like a general manager or a strategist breaking down a game plan. Wade’s role is wing defender, which demands maximum effort.
“Now, I’m focusing on this end of the floor more, trying to be assertive, be a better defender,” Wade said.
Dwyane Wade rises to occasion, helps lead Heat’s stunning rally
By Bob Hurst
Special to The Miami Herald
CHICAGO -- If Chicago-area native Dwyane Wade wanted anything more, it would be to knock out the team that he grew up cheering for in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals.
The Heat did not necessarily need Wade to have a big game to reach its first NBA Finals since 2006, but it wouldn’t have hurt.
After a sluggish overall game, it was Wade who ended up igniting an 18-3 finish, as the Heat prevailed 83-80.
Miami now returns to the Finals, and Wade got his wish.
Wade said before Game 5 that the Heat was just as desperate as the Bulls, and needed to play like it. And although he started out well with seven points in the first quarter, Wade looked more like he might have been waiting to get back to Miami for Game 6 with a chance to clinch at home.
“We’re desperate, too,” Wade said. “We didn’t work this hard to put ourself in this position, to be up 3-1, to not be able to match their energy and effort.”
Wade made a basket along with 5 of 6 free-throw attempts in the opening quarter, but his play fizzled from there. He scored just two points in each of the next two quarters. Wade was 1 for 5 from the field in the middle periods, as the Heat trailed the Bulls 45-38 at halftime and 62-57 after three.
There was a missed three-point attempt by Wade in the third that would have gotten the Heat within two. After he drove the lane for a layup, making it 50-44 Chicago, Wade missed two more shots before picking up his third foul.
Wade’s biggest problem wasn’t his scoring though. He committed four turnovers in the second quarter and three more in the third for a total of nine going into the final period. He came into the game with 11 turnovers in the playoffs, all in the first four games of the series.
In the second quarter, Wade had a ball stolen, traveled twice and threw the ball away on a bad pass. The third quarter wasn’t much better, as Wade continued his sloppy passing, turning the ball over two more times on errant feeds.
But nobody can ever count Wade out. That desperation he was talking about going into Game 5 showed up in the fourth quarter.
Despite playing with four fouls, Wade turned it up a notch.
He made a running bank shot to trim the Bulls’ lead to 77-67 with 3:03 left in the game. Then he stole the ball and scored on a driving layup to trim the deficit to eight.
Wade followed that with a three-pointer from 27 feet, getting fouled in the process by Derrick Rose. He made the free throw, and all of a sudden the Heat was back in it, down by just three at 79-76 with 1:30 remaining in regulation. Wade then deferred to LeBron James, who sealed the victory by scoring the next five points.
“I had moments where I was struggling, and it’s not the first time in my life I was struggling. Obviously, I wanted to do it [Thursday night], I wanted to play great, but it just wasn’t in the cards for me to do that. Sitting on the bench and watching what our team did, coming into the fourth quarter and being down five points … so when I got back into the game, my mind was free. I’m a person who believes that other people give you confidence, and when LeBron threw me back the ball, I was like, I have to make something happen.”
Wade had a few blemishes Thursday night, but he still finished with 21 points, with 10 of those coming in the decisive fourth quarter.
“He’s got something different, a different makeup inside of him that he’s able to rise to the occasion regardless of what’s happening during the course of the game. And he’s proven that so many times,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said.
Just like that, Miami Heat in the NBA Finals
By Israel Gutierrez
igutierrez@miamiherald.com
CHICAGO -- It’s almost as if they needed another test, something that they hadn’t been through all season, something to remind them just how talented and potentially unstoppable they really are.
Something that will be remembered forever, like that full-court ally-oop in Indiana. Except in the playoffs. Except way more dramatic. Except with a trip to the NBA Finals on the line.
There was every reason to believe the Heat was playing Game 5 with the knowledge that this was just one of three close-out games, not the “must-win” that LeBron James claimed it was after the Heat took a 3-1 series lead Tuesday.
And then it happened.
The most dizzying display of shut-your-mouth the NBA has seen in some time.
The most incredible outside-shooting display from players whose strength is well inside the three-point line.
The most remarkable and sudden three-minute turnaround the league has seen in some time, if not ever. Possibly as stunning as Reggie Miller scoring eight points in 11 seconds to shock the Knicks in 1995.
Nothing, except for maybe James’ recent clutch-shooting displays, made you believe the Heat could pull off this 83-80 comeback victory after trailing by 12 with 3:14 remaining.
Nothing. Until, of course, it started happening.
Before those final three minutes, the Heat played mostly like the team that showed up in Game 1, getting battered on the boards and playing mediocre defense as it watched Bulls players hit open shot after open shot, and even a few demoralizing contested shots.
And as if it wasn’t bad enough that the intangibles were apparently absent from the Heat, there was the Dwyane Wade factor.
Usually, the words “Dwyane Wade factor” mean good news for the Heat. This time, though, it was just the opposite. He had been getting progressively worse through this series, showing only brief moments of his usual self. And he showed off his absolute worst through three-plus quarters in Game 5. Nine turnovers, indecisiveness, bricks galore.
And then, just like that, none of that mattered.
Just like that, it was “bring on the Mavs.”
Just like that, a flurry of threes and long jumpers and Bulls mistakes, and the Heat is on its way to the Finals. Again. Somehow.
How did that happen?
Three words: Wade and LeBron.
It started something like this: Wade eight-footer, Wade layup, LeBron three-pointer, timeout Bulls.
At that point, the Heat looked like it was just scaring Chicago. The Bulls did, after all, still have a seven-point lead with two minutes remaining and the league MVP in charge.
But then it continued.
This one stretch might have been even more jaw-dropping. And it went like this:
Derrick Rose eight-footer, Wade four-point play.
Stop on that one for a second.
Wade four-point play.
Wade had been atrocious almost the entire game, to the point where everyone assumed he was injured.
And get this, Wade had not hit a three-pointer in this series until that moment. He had been 0 for 4.
Maybe it took the nudge on the arm from Rose to guide it in, but it went in. And so did the free throw. And, suddenly, the Bulls were more than scared. They were as terrified as their home crowd because the Heat was just three points back, 79-76.
From the bench, there wasn’t any timidity. There wasn’t any, “Let’s not get too excited.” They were all in.
“I was chest-bumping the [heck] out of everyone over there,” Mike Bibby said.
It’s like he knew it would continue like this:
Rose miss, LeBron three-pointer. Again.
Another three-pointer despite the fact there was a minute left and you would think the Heat would settle for a two to cut its deficit to a point.
Nope. Not LeBron. Not on this night.
Tie score. United Center, somehow, quieter than silent, except for those fans drunk with disappointment wondering, “What the …?” aloud.
Then the final moments went like this: LeBron long jumper to take the lead, Rose misses 1 of 2 free throws (seen that before), Chris Bosh hits two to extend the lead to three. Then crazy, suffocating, wouldn’t-score-if-they-played-10-more-minutes Heat defense seals the deal.
Wade was so bad in this game, after two subpar games in Miami, that everyone was assuming he was hurt.
And then, somehow, he did that. Crazy thing about slumps. When you’re as good as Wade, they turn around in the blink of an eye.
LeBron had not hit a jumper, it felt like, since the opening quarter.
And then, all of a sudden, he did that. James, though, had done enough of that in these playoffs to almost expect it at some point. But at that point?
All you could say was “Wow!”
And thanks to “Wow!” the Heat is back in the Finals.
It might take you three times watching this one again to figure out how it happened. It might take you a day or two to even think about the Mavericks because that ending is worth about two days of savoring.
But you got it. The Heat is in the Finals again, ready to take on the Mavs again.
If you’re looking for an edge, there is this: The Heat already had the more impressive come-from-behind victory on the road in the conference finals.
Dallas made up 15 points in five minutes against the Thunder. The Heat made up 12 in 3:14 against the Bulls.
Advantage Heat.
And with Wade and LeBron wearing the jersey, isn’t it always advantage Heat?
jrod44;2674916 said:Lebatard just now,
You had the black Sammy Sosa, we got the white Sammy Sosa
Dead
